Ended up getting tinnitis, apparently due to loud headset noise even though the loudest I'd sometimes go was half. I'll probably end up killing myself if this doesnt heal in a few months. But anyway, just a warning to you guys to not keep the headset on too long, dont play on high volume or use speakers instead, and take good care of your ears. You do not want to live with this shit trust me.
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I got the same from the same situation, there's times you can just ignore it because you're focusing on other things but it does suck a ton.
How long have you had it?
That's pretty bold, but it's your choice if you want to keep doing that..
For a bit over one year now. I got it right after being done with dealing with a kidney stone. At first I thought about ending it as well, nothing improved tinnitus wise nor life wise but I just accept that life will suck and nothing will come from it, I'm just going to ride it out.
I heard someone say in this website that tinnitus has a cure, is that even true?
If it is from physical damage, no, just hope you get used to it. If your tinnitus is from stress and high blood pressure, it can go away.
>I heard someone say in this website that tinnitus has a cure, is that even true?
The only cure is to be an hero
Unfortunately, even though some people call me a pussy for even considering doing it.
No, modern science is an embarrassment
i probably won't since i just tripped a death flag for saying that. thank you for your warning
No problem man, best time to switch what you're doing is right now.
I stopped using my headset a week ago after it started happening and looking into getting speakers, I'll never put on a headset again for the rest of my life if I don't off myself within the year.
The only good part is that my tinnitus is reactive, which means it's not a constant EEEEEEEEE all the time, it only flares up in response to certain sounds like fans and vacuums. I dont know if I'll be able to live with it either way but we'll see.
>mfw have tinnitis since 24
>shit hearing too
>but my eeeeeeeeeeeee sound reminds me of when I used to turn on my old crt and sit on the couch sleeping so It always reminds me of that when I'm about to go to bed and I get a comfy nights rest
i always have volume blasting at full and i wear in-ear buds. sucks for you though
Tinnitus doesn't exist, its a hallucination that stays with you forever.
exactly. i've gotten rid of a bad case of it that was BAD and lasted months through simply realizing its psychosomatic and not even real kek.
>had it my entire life so it cannot bother me
>still enjoy music and sound just as much as everyone else
>only acknowledge the sound exists maybe once a week for 10 minutes
>meanwhile other anons will spend their entire lives remembering whatlife was before that sound and lament it until they die
Do you use a headset or speakers? Glad it doesnt bother you though.
How did that happen from a kidney stone? I get the usual cause of concerts, gunshots but some ways people have developed tinnitus makes no sense to me. But that sucks man, hope it gets better for you.
I guess it was the stress plus like OP, I wear a headset almost every day for almost the full day I'm up, not even put that loud.
I was told it could be a tumor or an infection that got into my inner ear. Gave me some vitamins and I haven't heard from the doctor since. Sometimes you can ignore it, most of them time it's just a ringing sound that never ever ever stops. I was afraid I was crazy and just kinda dealt with it but I did finally see a Dr and well, I'm basically deaf in that ear except for the ringing
Some doctors really are completely useless. But crazy that all happened, hope you're living with it okay.
That's fine dude, as long as you keep the volume low enough.
same here anon
This.
You people merely adopted the tinnitus
I was EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Is tinnitis really that big of a deal? I don't remember when I got it, but it was something like what said but even then I still listen to music on headphone and shit. The few times I hear complete silence is the time I get extremely lonely and depressed, so I put on seinfeld episodes as background noise.
I too was molded by the ringing, if I focus I can even make it LOUDER.
I don't know if I was born with it or what but I can't remember a time I didn't hear it. I remember thinking that the "sound of silence" was a high-pitched whine as a kid.
Because it is?
That's the sound of technology around you. Frequencies of living things and etc. A sound you can hear from the fridge in the next room, from your plugged in laptop in standbuy, from plugged in TV's. I hear this too, everyone does. Tinnitus is louder and more annoying since people who have it have fricked their ears. I heard it once or twice in my life too when i was next to the speakers in a metal concert. Shit is brutal, had to listen to slow piano jazz on earphones so that i could focus away from the noise and go to sleep after i went home after the concert. Even saying this, tinnitus is not worth killing yourself over, you are bound to adapt to it sooner or later.
You could have gotten it no matter what you did though, people get it who don't wear headphones at all. Musicians who play on loud as frick stages sometimes don't get it, it's pretty random.
>That's the sound of technology around you.
Nah there's a difference. Sure, the fridge and shit make noise, but there are times when at random you will experience a higher pitch that is not there all the other times but still sounds like technology/power flowing. Idk if that's tinnitus or not, because it goes away, it doesn't hurt, and it's not insanely annoying to the point of being unable to sleep and shit.
You might be getting acute bouts of tinnitus from spikes in blood pressure, instead of chronic tinnitus from damage to the inner ear.
Some anon posted a while ago about how ringing in your ears might be neck posture
And then there's the old wive's tale i saw here, that you put hour palms over hear ears, and lightly tap your thumbs against the back of your head?
i occasionally get mild ringing, but it goes away in under a minute
Neck or back damage seems more likely than simply posture.
Tinnitus doesnt have a cure no. For a few people it might go away eventually, but it's often permanent too depending on how severe the damage is.
🙁
it comes and goes for me but it usually sticks around longer than it leaves
I was born with it and visual snow which apparently means something is fricked up in my brain
>I'll probably end up killing myself if this doesnt heal in a few months
It is permanent. It never heals.
I have had it for a few years. Eventually u get used to it and it stops being noticeable
I had the same a year ago after listening to music too loud. Abstain as much as possible (if not completely) from using headsets and ESPECIALLY EARBUDS. Do not use them for months. Let your ears heal on their own and make an appointment with your doctor. When I got tinnitus, I abstained from headset/earbuds religiously and it went away after a few weeks. In my naivety, I put on earbuds on the train again, and guess what, it flared up again. Now it's been like a year and I barely hear it anymore, because I minimized headset use. I just set my headphones to low and don't use them as often. Normally, I switch to speakers and occasionally to a headset if there is a nice song I like. Take a break every hour or so. Another problem is duration. If you use them all day, that's nonstop sound slamming at your eardrum. You need to take breaks. I don't use any white noise to drown it out, I think that actually works against your brain trying to figure out something is wrong.
does over the ear or in the ear make any difference do you think?
in-ear earbuds are the worst because they are the closest to your ear drums compared to all devices. Over-the-ear open headsets are best because the sounds leak outwards (that is why they are 'open'). However I got it from my open over the ear headset, so you still need to be careful.
Mine is also reactive to an extent, but it blows over. The first few weeks were horrifying, but it subsided to a negligible extent. I hear it now very lightly, but it's nothing. Make sure you sleep well, eat well, talk to a doc, and it might just get fixed on its own.
Thanks for the info. I might start using these over the ear ones that are pretty loose and leak audio out, but who cares I would rather save my ears.
My friends dad went to concerts his entire life and was deaf as hell and let me tell you there is nothing fun about being deaf and knowing you could have stopped it. Dude would always talk to us about it.
same
ear buds are cancer
I've been using sound proof earbuds for years at near max volume and haven't had any issues yet but now I'm kinda scared I might've overdone it.
just dont use it for a week and see if your hearing has improved. You could even go and take a hearing test before and after not wearing it for 1-2 weeks. If your hearing improves, then it might mean it is being damaged.
Stay strong buddy, no need to end anything, I believe in you!
Thanks dude, appreciate it.
How did it start for you? Hope you're dealing with it alright after 4 years so far.
Problem is, my tinnitus is reactive. If I put the fan on, it'll flare up trying to compete with the fan on making the louder noise. White noise doesnt seem to be good for me unlike people with the classic tinnitus.
Banana Phone was way ahead of its time hah, at least it's not like that for me or I'd be dead already.
What can a doctor do for me though?
>What can a doctor do for me though?
Your GP can help you better than anyone here can. Mine cleared out my ears with a water spray thingie just in case. She reassured me that It could go away in a few weeks.
Gotcha, I dont want to let my family know about this but I guess I'll have to. Expecting the 'I told you so' speech about having the headset on all the time. Thanks for telling me.
In just a week? That's some real quick recovery, never heard of it disappearing that fast.
That's great that it worked for you, I think it's safer for me to just protect my ears from loud frequencies and wait it out.
How bad is it for you? Is it constant, high noise?
Yep, constant never ending high noise. You get used to it. Gets worse when my blood pressure raises or I run.
>half
Half isn't a volume level, that could very well be extremely loud. It's not like the damn volume knob hurts you, if half is still too loud you're still getting ear damage.
>She reassured me that It could go away in a few weeks.
Some conditions like ear infections and damage to the eardrum can cause ringing too. Once those heal the associated ringing also goes away. I think I damaged one of my eardrums when blowing my nose when I had a cold once. I heard a strange pop in that ear and then it started ringing, it took like a couple of weeks until the ringing went away completely.
>about having the headset on all the time
It's not how long you have it on, it's how loud your shit is playing.
That's true, I was an idiot to put it that high but due to the fan being on I didnt really notice it being overly loud. Either way, here I am. Trying to make sure some others here wont follow in my footsteps.
I had some damage a year ago while listening to some tunes while running
ran back and noticed something was wrong after my shower
I'd listen to some directional sound effect in a familiar vidya game and when turning my character, I couldn't hear it as well in the other ear
with an uncomfortable ringing that lasted for a day or two
it was pretty sad for a minute, but I got used to it in a week and learned to relax when noticing the ringing until my mind ignores it again
>heal
its never going away
t. had it for over 4 years now
I have had Tinnitus for past 3 and a half years. I had same thoughts at the begining but trust me bro you'll get used to it.
I also played with headset full noise until I broke my laptops 3.5mm jack. But even though I didn't get tinnitus almost a year after I stopped playing that it probably had damaged me enough and one loud movie caused me to get it permanently in my right ear.
Here's what you do. Get a fan. When you go to sleep put the fan on. That is the only way I can sleep to this day. Once you stop focusing on the noise in couple months you won't hear it when you do normal every day things. But you just have to use a fan whenever you sleep so it masks the noise.
But yeah it sucks for the first year but trust me you'll get used to it. I did eventually.
>Ended up getting tinnitis, apparently due to loud headset
Shut the frick up pussy, grow some nuts.
>a fricking gayming headset
I have it from using a 100 pound jackhammer on concrete for a few months without ear protection when I was 18.
No big deal. Just keep a fan on in the room at all times, leave music/a tv on, and you’re good.
It’s really loud when I stand in my quite garage if that makes any sense. But if I turn on a radio in the garage I don’t hear ringing just music
Can I get government money for this or no?
go and check on google you lazy frick
I got a nasty ear infection one time from using headphones all the time. Since that day I clean em with alcohol at least once a week even if the fake leather shit peels off.
I've stopped using earplugs so often when I got a monitor with speakers, was just very convenient, now I mostly use earplugs for meetings/talking with someone, being on the train and for listening to music when I wanna focus on it
also, dropped the volume during listening quite a bit, it's not fun at first, but you can get used it quite well, feels alright
>started getting minor tinnitis
>immediately discontinued headphone use
I thank my lucky stars I managed to catch it in time and it just went away.
That's super lucky, can you tell me more? When did it start, how bad was it and when did it go away? People think tinnitus is permanent for everyone who gets it forever but there are some like you that get lucky and it shows.
It started to show I would say around 2 years after regular headphone use. It wasn't that bad, but it was bad enough that it made it difficult to get to sleep easily. I pretty much discontinued headphone use entirely the instant I noticed it, and it went away in about a week maybe.
It's a kinda simple process to reduce tinnitus;
Play a song that has prominent drum snares that are not "de-essed", i.e the sound producer has no fricking idea what they are doing and didn't reduce the sibilance in the track
is an example
Go into your realtek equalizer and reduce the 8k and 16k ranges until the tapping sensation in your ears when that sound plays is much less harsh
Then find a PC volume for you that doesn't leave you with tinnitus after a few hours of music. for me it's about 35-40, my headset is very loud though.
I started getting bad tinnitus a few years back and after doing what i just described, it's been reduced a whole lot.
Any track with drums is a potential nightmare for tinnitus if the person who did sound production for the track is awful at their job. Live show audio will sometimes do this too.
I've lived my whole life with tinnitis. You'll survive. Also, there's been some developments for treatments with eat injections or whatever. So that's something for you to research on your own.
>tinnitus going away
>ever
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mine's not like this luckily or I'd have jumped off a tall building already.
No worries, I'm just trying to warn people to be careful with their headset volume so they don't end up like this.
There is a method to reduce tinnitus. I remember it was posted here years ago, it involves putting all your fingers below you head, where the cerebellum is located and slowly drumming.
I would be careful with taking medical advice on Ganker OP, do your research first
I have mild tinnitus, usually not there but what I do have is fricking massive earwax buildup to the point where I have to flush them out every so often because there gets to be so much in there.
Does flushing it out help much?
Yes, considering the before things are tangibly muffled in the ear with excessive wax. The difference is night and day.
It gets worse with stress. When you're feeling good, your tinnitus will be much quieter and sometimes even unnoticeable. Shit still sucks though.
I've always had high stress and anxiety long before this happened to me, so that's gonna be something to deal with.
There's neck muscles you can massage to help with tinnitus iirc
there is no cure???
Nope, just methods to make it bearable.
You cant just think it's not real and it'll go away, not how it works.
yes it is. look up psychosomatic illness. Dr. John Sarno. There's millions of people suffering from disabling pain/ailments that are literally entirely stemmed from their own brain.
Chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, and to most extent tinnitus and visual snow mostly all fall into this category. Basically your brain concocting ailments to distract you from horrific depression/stress. Anyone you've ever met who had chronic "bad back" is a prime example. The cure is out there if you do the research - and this is coming from a guy who was also suicidal over visual snow/tinnitus and had both pretty much evaporate but it took months to convince myself it was mental.
Psychosomatic illnesses are real but tinnitus and visual snow aren't it. Stress manifests itself as physical pain such as headaches, chest pains, or other body soreness and pain. Very rarely as auditory and visual hallucinations which is what you're implying.
I have both tinnitus and visual snow from lots of drug usage and loud music shit is very real. All I can say is you get used to it OP.
You have a very mild case. It can get much, much worse than that. If it doesn't bother you no reason to stress, just make sure you don't damage your hearing any further and you're good.
>I have both tinnitus and visual snow from lots of drug usage and loud music shit is very real.
You are an absolute moron but no its not. Nobody in the 70s taking brown acid ever got years long conditions from taking drugs. You just are an anxious, underperforming loser and your brain has you convinced you have all these "problems" to distract you from the real problem of your life, that you most likely are a burnout without a good job, gf, etc. Read the book I mentioned if you ever want to feel better, otherwise just keep convincing yourself you have visual snow cause your mind was too opened from mushrooms.
Source - had visual snow as a child at 7, before ever doing any drugs.
Sounds like made up bullshit to skip work
frick
Just GIVE me the HRT ALREADY FOR FRICK SAKE
I've had it for a few years and sometimes it's unbearable a few nights a month because it sounds like a loud blown out speaker right next to me. It's even worse in my right ear.
How do I even check if I have tinnitus?
at night when I'm trying to sleep and it's all silent I can always hear a constant faint EEEEEEEEE but it's not loud enough to bother me, can't hear it during a normal day at all unless I enter someplace where everything is dead silent and then again in those cases the EEEEEEEEEE is not loud enough to make me want to kill myself or anything
it's tinnitus
YOUR life is over dude
People have lived with it for 20+ years so, it can be the end if you want it to be.
Yes you got to me, good job.
What does HRT have to do with this?
tintus doesn't exist. It's the CIA shooting your with this.
meds, now
i ain't your butler, go get your meds yourself
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For anyone who has debilitating tinnitus try reading this book. This is what cured mine. It takes a leap of faith but realize its a disorder of the mind, not in the ear. It's a psychosomatic disorder.
Think about it, why all throughout the civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, before any soldiers were ever given earplugs, did nobody in medial journals ever make note of this "ringing in the ears" phenomenon? Even when they were standing next to muskets and cannons with no protection?
Seems odd that tinnitus is almost entirely an internet-era disorder and it affects almost everyone, much like "anxiety" nowadays. If you have an open mind and are desperate for a cure read about John Sarno and TMS and give it a try. You ain't gonna find a cure anywhere else that's for damn sure.
the most moronic post i've ever read, in old times they'd plug their ears with wax so they didn't lose thier hearing jesus fricking christ anon.
I've had it for like 20 years you little pussy
OP is a homosexual. I have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9ni%C3%A8re%27s_disease
And it's way worse. frick you pussy homosexual.
Sorry to hear that man, I've only had this for a week so I'm adjusting to it or trying to, but I'm not as strong as other people dealing with worse.
I have other problems and worries, so having this on top of it makes it harder.
I guess having the fan on during summer made me turn it up a notch which was moronic and I got what I deserve. If I can help at least one person into not ending up the same I'll be glad.
>omg im gonna kill myself because i hear eee when theres silence
holy fricking shit this is your biggest worry in your life?
kys cretin
You're probably some third worlder from Russia or Brazil, you wouldn't understand
yeah i wouldnt know how hearing some sound that you can blur out with white noise makes you want to end your life
Tinnitus is made up. There's nothing in your head making noise, you're just imagining it.
>half
what the frick, i set my headset to 10-20 and even then its loud for me
how can you handle 50
You had to have had ear trauma at some point for headphones to give you tinnitus
Not that I can remember honestly, never dealt with any accoustic trauma.
could've been vibrations as well or general head trauma
How do you measure when something is too loud? I listen incredibly loud music (grindcore, black metal) and it always terrifies me the idea that I can develop tinnitis.
Decibel meter. Over 70 decibels is the danger zone.
How can people let shit turn this bad? I start to get earwax blockage if I use headset many days in a row
Probably because you have a shitty headset with no breathability. I can use open back headphones forever.
Not paying attention, not seeing the signs until it's too late, people like me become caution stories so others wont be stupid enough.
idk anon i clean out my ears every time i shower
>noo a sound annoys me i want to kill myself abloo abloo
you stupid frick they are blind people who are born blind, they have never seen the faces of their parents, aquientances and friends, they have never seen 1 fricking item around them, so they will never know exactly how it looks and even those people live on and don't kill themsleves.
Well sure, and I'd be used to this if I were born with it. It's as bad as suddenly becoming blind when you knew what life was like normally.
Someone mentioned it earlier, tapping your thumbs against the back of your head.
I remember seeing an anon who posted a weird trick to more or less relieve it and he received a lot of positive replies, I don't remember what it was but you might want to search the archives.
>not being able to indulge in asmr anymore
damn i'd kill myself on the spot if i got tinnitis
I can still listen to Latte's sexy voice on speaker but you're right, not the same.
i've got tinnitus in my left ear and i still listen to asmr just fine, i only got reminded that i have it when i saw this thread
>having a headset
what's it like being underage?
I've had it since I was a child and I did nothing to precipitate it - it can be one of those unlucky things. I used to need a radio to fall asleep, but after a couple of years, your mind gets used to it and its effect on you is reduced. I can fall asleep in silence now. Seriously nothing to end your life over, I guarantee it's not as bad as you think.
You've had it for a long time though, I need to adjust to it.
I get that, but trust me that you will adjust to it. Time is a great healer. Cliche, but true.
I've had it for 2 years now and I still can't sleep without background noise
I'll take your word for it. Gonna give it a few months and see how much I feel like dying by then. So far it's relatively quiet with reactive tinnitus until I put on a fan or vacuum.
my volume never goes past 20%
I keep the headphones on while I’m sipping and even playing single player games, I’m just not as immersed without the sound being beamed into my brain.
got severe hearing loss on left side, had tinnitus for over 25 years. For some reason it's gotten better in the recent years.
Best advice I can give is to not think about it. You will get used to it.
Tinnitus is incurable. My dad's been struggling with it for 30 years. He eventually gave up.
I'm starting to get it too now. I will hear ringing for a minute or two at a time. Life sucks and then you die.
Iva had tinnitus since childhood. You'll get used to it, quit being a pussy, OP.
I've had tinnitus for more than a decade. You get used to it.
Ever since I was a child I thought it was completely normal to hear a constant ringing sound in my ears, I've discovered it's actually a "problem" a few years ago.
I don't even know how it feels like to NOT hear that ringing all the time, fortunately though I hear it only when I either focus on it or when shit around me is at low volume/silent.
Ditto. At first it annoyed me as a kid, but now it's comforting because I KNOW it's 100% silent around me. Very securing.
my homie
don't worry too much anon you'll get used to it and probably forget you have it.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Freedom and consequences and such, you know?
Are Hispanic ears made out of steel or something cuz they love to blast music for some reason. I've never seen a Hispanic complain about breasts and anus (It's how I say tinnitis)
You can lose hearing without getting tinnitus, there are borderline deaf people with complete silence and kids who go to a concert once and start hearing lawnmowers 24/7, it just depends how much nerve damage you get.
I've had tinnitus my entire life you weak little b***h.
same. can't remember a time when there wasn't at least a slight eeeeeeee. just don't pay attention
Nut up you fricking b***h I've been dealing with it for at least 15 years.
people say tinnitus is permanent but I often get bad fits of tinnitus after a long motorcycle ride or after gigs (frick drums they're way too loud). Generally I just wait it out and in 5 days its either gone or it has been reduced to the point where I only ear it when I'm really paying attention hard to it.
Congratulations on your tennis membership
>>>/k/ has tinnitus treatments that can help relieve the effects for a little while
try asking them
I always listen to shit at 10-20 percent volume on my earbuds
rarely do I ever go above that and it's always for short periods of time
It's been some months since I have it in my left ear. For me the worst is at night when you go to sleep. When the only thing your hear is the fricking ringing. Now I'm getting used to it but when the ringing gets to loud I put a video of the sea just high enough to help me sleep. If it can help you.
I'll rather use this than medications, I don't want to rely on meds.
I've stopped listening to music because I noticed my random tinnitis moments were increasing. I don't miss it.
you merely adopted tinnitus I was born in it molded by it
so as I pray unlimited EEEEEEEEEEEEE works
have had tinnitus since i can remember, never was exposed to loud noises, always have listened to everything at an adequate volume (in fact when i was in school i would think i was cool for listening to music as quiet as possible)
heard it could have something to do with your jaw, which could make sense in my case because moving my jaw around changes how my tinnitus sounds
All the nerves are connected. I think mine also has to do with my jaw though I just got used to it. My hearing is perfect otherwise in both ears otherwise.
>live in small studio apartment
>constant white noise in the form of fridge buzzing, cars driving by, etc.
>go to visit parents who live in a house in a quiet neighborhood
>sit in my old bedroom
>start to hear the buzzing noise
this is some fricking bullshit. is it possible to not notice it unless you are in complete silence?